Icon Cache Tutorial and .bat did not fix my desktop icons

Not Myself · Sep 13, 2023

As you can see from the screenshot, the icons have nearly all lost their images. I ran the the three options in the Icon Cache tutorial to no avail. One oddity is that the last command in Option 3 did not restart the computer, but my doing so manually did not fix the problem.

Ideas gratefully accepted.

Brink · Sep 13, 2023

Hello,

There's been a bug lately with the desktop icons not always showing their icons.

Usually, refreshing (F5) the desktop fixes it until it happens again.

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Not Myself · Sep 13, 2023

Thanks, Brink. Neither F5 nor Refresh made any difference. I may have to simply bide my time until the icons get tired of misbehaving and return to their usual selves.

Perhaps Icon wait until then....